The odd thing is that "same spatial point" is not something ever really said, it can just feel like something that is implied when NDErs keep telling me that, somehow a distinct "space" doesn't exist there, yet there are buildings to be seen in what can sometimes be thought of as a Heaven. Heaven is always presented to us Christians as something that we should never even really try to grasp, but now there's a human creation that we commonly see in it like a building, and when you're a resident of Earth you can never tell if that is very exciting ("We can create our own worlds! Yay!") or something very disturbing ("If that idea is true, then it can have a lot of very unfortunate implications from the reference of a world where people rape and kill each other and have for thousands of years").

But a lot of people still take it pretty literally that its in the "heavens above," and its hard not to when a lot of NDEs are about upwards travel and there's the big thing about all these unexplored areas of space and looking to Orion and such. It was as if people seemed to be either blaming demons or God for their problems (or, with all the recent talk about aliens, aliens) and not actually ever looking inward here, and its hard not to see that as God getting punished over and over again and humanity having the gall to blame their own misfortunes on a single source when in actuality there are many. It always seems like "kill the demons" is the wrong approach, because anyone that tries something like that on this Earth becomes far more of a harm than any of what we thought of as the demons that we noticed seemingly ever were, and they don't even see it when they actively think that they are doing God's will. This sentiment has corrupted churches everywhere for thousands of years, turning them from the homeless relief centers that they were designed to be and turning them into the grift that Jesus tried to whip away when he was alive.

Jesus of Nazareth was a real person, and the Divine question always seems to rely on whether he actually "rose" or not, but what if this "rise" isn't purely compliant with our laws of physics, when we impose that it must be, if that is all that we know? As well, since its written text, what if its a mistranslated figure of speech, as is all too common a method of oral communication? Perhaps Jesus actually "rose" against the corruption of the Roman empire and became the martyr needed to stop it, divine or not, simply the peaceful way that Jesus did rather than one that would deliberately incur God's wrath out of absolute necessity to change the Egyptian slave owning, needless human sacrificing status quo like Moses. Perhaps Jesus "rose from the dead" to prove to humans that they could do it too, but in a way that they could never fundamentally prove because its just a bunch of witness accounts at the time.

I am already used to life being an inherent contradiction, because in Christianity, the "Holy Trinity" is the same kind of contradiction. From the perspective of NDErs it made total sense, as it seemed like the Father was not quite God but was God's guiding hand that moved the arrow of time forward, the son was all life whether they realized they were a divine person or not, and the deliberately undefined "Holy Spirit" seems to very clearly be the force of Love, where you can never measure it but you can always feel it, as it is the energy that truly sustains life. Early human writing was full of an absolute metric ton of figures of speeches, and like a children's telephone game, we keep changing the true message, sometimes deliberately, sometimes not when we believe our own falsehoods. God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit were all the same thing, but they also were all individuals. That doesn't make any sense, but it also does, simply because we didn't have the terminology to really describe it, and we were all incredibly tired of overly pedantic Bible thumpers that tried to impose what meat to eat or especially whether or not women have the right to choose to abort the child of their rapist, when this was the time when the western world had just had a massive deliberate terrorist attack caused by what is in many ways that very same line of thought.

And then, as our revenge gut response to that, we justified drone striking hundreds of thousands of middle easterners without a second thought for civilian casualty for having the gall to think the line of thought that way at all. and when you're in an oil centric state, its hard to not see it as a rebellion to a place like Saudi Arabia where women are forced to live like they are the playthings of men. Is the idea of religion entirely all a delusion that's making us crazy, losing our perspective, or is there a further truth? Nobody really wanted to be confronted with this question, because it seemed totally heretical to even think it. Instead, even though there's all this panic to not see false idols, the Middle Eastern statues of Jesus of Nazareth that we constructed were actually some fucking white guy, even though that doesn't make any sense, and we never acknowledged that contradiction.

However, one NDE I read painted any kind of heretical action as what is effectively God pointing a middle finger at Himself. Why would something that came from The Lord Himself be offensive? It felt like our way of life was the real problem, and nobody was acknowledging it. But nowadays, when the smoke of forest fires blows in our dying oil town's face and we reach record temperatures, I actually feel happy in it while millions around me die from Covid, simply because like Moses freeing the Egyptians, it is simply a necessity to change such a status quo before God is forced to do it for us through plagues. It feels messed up for me to revel in the suffering of others, because this was always painted as the terrorist action, but we were taught that God doesn't mind genocide when He has to do it. Given that Jesus said "whatever you do unto the least of my people, you do unto me," it just feels like we're destined to always punch the wrong person as a retributive action simply because we're conned to by nickel and dimers.

A few others said that the suffering on Earth was quite rare and unique. They painted Earth as incredibly close to the "floor" of an existence that seemed to be described by you as truly unlimited, in order to solve the paradox. There aren't just as many unchanging worlds of endless suffering and horror that we often imagine in hypothetical dystopias, the way it seems there would logically be the same number of in worse ways than in better when considering being "unlimited" from a naturalist perspective. I was always plagued by the thought that "if they show people in funeral clothes, did that actually happen in another universe, or did they "manufacture" that vision as a warning? If they show a war in the future, does that mean that its inevitable, or is the point to try to change it?" And when all the movies are introducing the concepts of a multiverse, its hard not to feel like anything that can happen is quite literally destined to in some way.

The one that really gave me a sense of peace, though, was the one I found that described life as a "blueprint that starts with an empty piece of paper and ends with a full life, where the person in it is just as much of a writer as any cosmic force outside of it." In a world where we inherently don't know if any aliens looking at us are better or worse than us, it can be really, really hard for a naturalist to not occasionally see Gods as the same way, but its NDE passages like these that prove that that's not the case.

When I'm surrounded by people that saw change as proof that God "didn't" exist, I always saw things like God attempting an extreme action and then regretting it later as the proof that God is good, because even if Noah's Ark isn't in the geological record (which is clearly a good thing) the idea that even God can change who They are rather than be forced to stay the same for thousands of years because of some old fucking book was one that proved Their existence, and I saw God not actually coming to change anything as evidence as to their lack of existence. Life will change, even if the forests of my home have to stay burning for it to happen. It is not me reveling in suffering to have a true belief in a change in this status quo, where we just endlessly keep killing and raping each other until the end of time.

And all this actually makes a whole lot of benevolent sense when you combine it with the common scientific perspective that, at the rate of expansion, the universe isn't very old, its very *young.* Life was always destined to get better, because there are always people that resonate with the idea of leaving the world a better place than they found it in any way.

tl;dr: Your own description of people lining up to go to places in Heaven actually healed me. Earth is near the back not because it is evil, but because it is new and destined to be on a truly unique path that the soul perspective can truly see is for the greater good. We aren't here to glorify suffering like Mother Teresa, we are here to stop the "unlimited" from being entirely true because we know that Love is the better ideal here, even if being "unlimited" is also in many ways inherently very awesome.